Sentence examples for act of resumption from inspiring English sources

Henry's first Parliament of 1485 passed an Act of Resumption, in which large grants of crown properties made by his two predecessors to their supporters were cancelled.

Resumption Act of 1875, in U.S. history, culmination of the struggle between "soft money" forces, who advocated continued use of Civil War greenbacks, and their "hard money" opponents, who wished to redeem the paper money and resume a specie currency.

And the Resumption Act of 1875, they had a three-year period and they said, "We're going to quit printing money".

Blaine and his hard money allies were successful, but the issue remained alive until 1879, when all remaining greenbacks were made redeemable in gold by the Specie Payment Resumption Act of 1875.

The Specie Payment Resumption Act of 1875 required the treasury to redeem any outstanding greenbacks in gold, thus retiring them from circulation and restoring a single, gold-backed currency.

To describe a case of resumption of ovarian function 20 years after chemotherapy-induced ovarian failure.

Iran took a step towards nuclear self-sufficiency today, using locally mined uranium for the first time in an act of defiance to the west on the eve of the resumption of talks over its atomic programme.

The Democratic platform that year demanded repeal of the Resumption Act, while the Republicans nominated Hayes, whose position in favor of a gold standard was well-known.

Within a decade of the resumption of official relations the two governments were arguing over Japanese textbooks.

The incidence of the resumption of menses was also assessed.

Speaking before the UN General Assembly, US President Barack Obama characterized Abbas's resumption of peace talks as courageous -- contrasting it with the cowardly acts of violence against innocent women and children.